7.1" Blue Chalcedony Hand Carved Jewelry Tray Fruit Tray

A jewelry tray fruit tray worked in blue chalcedony. At 7.1 inches and 1063 g it wants a shelf of its own rather than a desk corner.

This is cryptocrystalline quartz — the crystals are there but far too small to see, which gives blue chalcedony its soft, slightly greasy sheen and its translucency. Held up to a lamp the pale blue-grey lets light through at the edges while the thicker passages stay opaque.

Worked in the round from a single block, with the form chosen to suit what that block could give rather than imposed on it.

Item ID 3100029
Material 100% natural blue chalcedony
Size 7.1 × 6.3 × 1.5 in (180 × 160 × 38 mm)
Weight 1063 g